Uncharacteristic Behaviour
Do you know a good friend or family member who started saying or doing some bizarre things, acting like a different person? You’ve known them so well for years, and suddenly you don’t recognize their reasoning or behaviour. It is so uncharacteristic; you find yourself saying, “This is so unlike him (her)”. After two decades [...]
Lessons about Staff I’ve Learnt from being a Mother
Have you observed a family of well-adjusted children recently…thoughtful, responsive, responsible, respectful, playful? How does your team stack up against this? I find it interesting that many well adjusted children are found in families where space and responsibility (duties and care) are shared. There are strong parallels between successfully managing staff and managing our children. [...]
Work/Life Balance – or paid Hobbyist?
One of the toughest ongoing decisions we make is in work/life balance. The decisions are often small, seemingly incidental, but tend to accumulate with exponential effects. I’ve seen families abandoned and marriages pulled apart by ‘small’ things like the ever-calling blackberry intruding on any private life. Why is it so often people do not recognize [...]
